自由活动大鼠睡眠状态和呼吸节律的同步监测方法

目的:设计一种睡眠呼吸暂停综合征动物模型的监测方法.方法:通过多导生理仪同步监测自由活动大鼠6 h生理睡眠时间的皮层脑电、颈部肌电,以及呼吸波形.并用人机交互的方法进行数据处理.结果:监测信号稳定、清晰易辨,根据记录到的信号可进行不同清醒-睡眠状态分期,并判断大鼠的呼吸暂停情况.结论:该法操作简便,是小动物睡眠和呼吸监测的可靠方法.     

用于实验动物的旋转行为监测仪

目的研制一种用于检测动物实验中动物旋转行为的旋转行为监测仪。方法采用串口控件、USB技术和旋转编码器等现代计算机、控制技术,并与传统的动物实验测量方法相结合,并配备了自行开发的基于VC的软件系统。结果研制出一台可连续性监测小型动物旋转行为仪器,智能显示记录动物的旋转行为。结论通过对实验数据的统计学分析,验证了系统的合理性、有效性。由此方法研制的旋转行为监测仪可在研究帕金森氏疾病的发病机制,筛选抗帕金森氏疾病的药物等方面发挥重要作用。     

基于心率检测的便携式儿童情绪感知系统研制

目的:检测儿童的情绪能力,从而检验儿童情绪能力发展是否正常以及协助训练孤独症儿童的情绪能力。方法:设计了一套便携式的儿童情绪感知系统,检测儿童的情绪能力。本系统由心率信号采集模块,PC机端的软件以及情绪能力数据分析组成。结果:研制的儿童情绪能力感知系统具有便携、可穿戴等优点,能够准确地检测儿童情绪能力。结论:儿童情绪能力感知系统能够检测使用者的情绪能力,也能够在儿童情绪能力干预训练中记录孤独症儿童的情绪变化,为干预训练提供帮助。     

急进高海拔时健康人夜间睡眠、呼吸状态和血氧饱和度的变化

在海拔2300m选择健康成年男性5人,急进抵海拔4660m,用多导监测仪分别在两地连续7h监测夜间睡眠、呼吸状态和血氧饱和度变化,进行自身对比。结果发现:(1)急进高海拔后,总睡眠时间、有效睡眠指数、Ⅲ～Ⅳ期深睡眠均较中度高原减少(p<0.01);总觉醒时间、Ⅰ～Ⅱ期浅睡眠高海拔较中度高原增多(p<0.05):(2)急进高海拔后,有3名健康人出现周期性呼吸,其中1名健康者出现周期性呼吸119次,伴有中枢性睡眠呼吸暂停,最低Sao_2为78％;(3)同海拔高度夜间睡眠时与清醒时Sao_2相比较,中度高原下降4.2％,高海拔下降11.2％(p<0.01);高海拔与中度高原夜间清醒时Sao_2相比较下降7.4％,睡眠时下降14.4％(p<0.001)。结果提示:(1)睡眠加重了高原人原有的低氧血症;(2)低氧血症导致睡眠结构的紊乱和睡眠质量的降低;(3)睡眠中出现的周期性呼吸,应视为机体的一种自我保护机制;(4)频发的周期性呼吸或睡眠呼吸暂停将影响大脑机能。     

农村留守老人主观幸福感状况调查分析

目的:了解农村留守老人的幸福感状况,探讨分析其影响因素。方法:采用自编人口统计学基本信息调查表,费城老年中心(PGC)信心量表,对149户农村留守老人和149户农村非留守老人的主观幸福感状况进行测量调查。结果:1农村留守老人主观幸福感得分低于非留守老人;2不同年龄的老人在激越,对自己年龄的态度和孤独与不满三个因子的差异无统计学意义(P0.05);3不同性别,不同受教育程度的老人在激越因子上有显著差异(前者P0.05,后者P0.01);4老人的配偶状况(P0.01),他们子女打工的年限(P0.05)在孤独与不满因子中的差异显著;5老人的子女数量在老人对自己年龄的态度上有显著差异(P0.05)。结论:农村留守老人主观幸福感水平较低,性别、配偶状况、受教育程度、老人的子女数量及其子女打工的年限,都是影响老人主观幸福感的重要因素。     

睡眠纺锤波在植物状态病人预后判别中的价值研究

目的:探讨脑电图睡眠纺锤波在植物状态病人预后判别中的价值。方法:在长程脑电监测下观察植物状态病人的睡眠纺锤波,与其意识恢复进行相关性分析,并预测患者意识恢复的敏感性、特异性及准确性。结果:28例患者中,12例有纺锤波,其中9例意识恢复;16例无纺锤波患者中,14例未恢复意识。纺锤波的有无与患者意识恢复有相关性,P值<0.01。脑电图睡眠纺锤波对植物状态患者意识恢复判断的敏感性(83.25%)、特异性(81.82%)、准确性(82.14%)。结论:脑电图睡眠纺锤波可较准确预测植物状态患者的意识恢复能力,可作为临床评估植物状态患者意识恢复能力的辅助方法。     

模拟微重力效应对果蝇运动及睡眠的影响

本研究旨在探讨利用模拟微重力效应研究微重力对果蝇运动及睡眠影响的可行性.通过研制能够在模拟微重力环境下实时监测果蝇行为的随机定位仪,监测短时间(3 d)模拟微重力处理过程中,及长时间(10 d、20 d、30 d)处理后雄蝇运动和睡眠的变化;选取受影响较显著的短时间处理组,研究模拟微重力效应对生物钟核心基因(period (per)、timeless(tim)、clock (clk)、cycle (cyc)、cryptochrome (cry))、神经递质多巴胺(dopamine,DA)和5-羟色胺(5-hydroxytryptamine,5-HT)关键合成酶(多巴脱羧酶、酪氨酸羟化酶、色氨酸羟化酶)的编码基因ddc、pale和trh表达水平及DA和5-HT含量的影响.结果显示:短时间暴露下,雄蝇夜晚的运动量增加、单位时间运动次数增加、睡眠时间和次数减少、生物钟基因tim、clk、cyc、cry及神经递质合成相关编码基因ddc、pale和trh的表达水平均显著上升;长时间处理后对雄蝇运动和睡眠的影响较小.本研究认为利用模拟微重力效应研究微重力对果蝇运动及睡眠的影响是可行的,相关研究结果对航天医学研究具有借鉴意义.     

酒石酸唑吡坦对非器质性失眠症患者Actigraphy检测指标的影响

目的:应用Actigraphy仪检测酒石酸唑吡坦对非器质性失眠患者睡眠质量的影响。方法:选择非器质性失眠症患者36例,实验第二晚给予10 mg酒石酸唑吡坦,实验第一晚和第四晚采用Actigraph仪监测,观察用药后Actigraph指标的变化。同时设置正常对照组24名,进行基础Actigraph监测。结果:失眠组患者服用酒石酸唑吡坦后,夜间Actigraphy检测显示实际觉醒时间(AWT)、睡眠潜入期(SL)、平均每次觉醒时间(MWB T)与服药前相比,显著缩短(P0.01);睡眠效率(SE)、平均静息状态时长(MLI)与服药前相比,显著提高(P0.01),同时反映身体活动的参数平均活动分数(MAS)和睡眠总体破碎程度的割裂指数(FI)与对照组相比,显著降低(P0.05)。结论:酒石酸唑吡坦能明显改善非器质性失眠患者睡眠,在非器质性失眠症的诊断治疗中Actigraphy仪是一种有效、便捷的方法。     

睡眠呼吸暂停综合征患者血脂水平的研究

目的:了解阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停低通气综合征(OSAHS)患者血浆脂质代谢情况。方法:分别检测健康对照组、睡眠呼吸暂停综合征患者组甘油三酯、总胆固醇、高密度脂蛋白胆固醇、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇、载脂蛋白A、载脂蛋白B、脂蛋白a、载脂蛋白E含量。进行统计学对比及分析。结果:睡眠呼吸暂停综合征患者的甘油三酯、总胆固醇、高密度脂蛋白、总胆固醇/高密度脂蛋白、载脂蛋白A、载脂蛋白B及载脂蛋白E与健康对照组比较有显著差异,且与其睡眠监测指标有明显相关。结论:OSAHS可导致血浆脂质代谢紊乱,与动脉粥样硬化发生及发展的存在重要的相关性,是独立于年龄、体重、饮食、遗传等原因的冠心病、高血压、脑卒中等心脑血管疾病的发病因素之一。因此,提高对OSAHS的警惕是非常重要的。     

一种用于荧光显微切片断层成像系统的远程监控装置

通过对荧光显微光学切片断层成像系统实际成像过程中激光器、液位、平移台等运行状态的分析,针对性设计了对这些关键部件工作状态进行监测的方法。在此基础上,进一步研制了一套可远程监测成像系统工作状态的装置,实现了对成像系统中激光器、液位以及平移台等实时状态的监测,将成像系统从开环工作状态转变为了带实时反馈的可监控工作状态。远程监控装置的使用提高了荧光显微光学切片断层成像系统的实用性与稳定性,提高了所获取数据的完整性。     

Instrument for determination and planning of care

Geronte is a French instrument to assess and visualize the need of care of elderly people. In 1995 Geronte was translated into Dutch. In order to be able to determine differences in the need of care, it was investigated whether the Dutch Geronte is able to discriminate between the users of different care-providing institutions. Five groups of fifteen elderly people in five different situations were examined: residents with predominantly psycho-geriatric impairment, residents with predominantly somatic impairment and residents of a home for the elderly, elderly people living at home with home help and elderly people living at home without any assistance. The Dutch Geronte proved to be able to reveal differences between the users of the different types of care, with the exception of residents of the home for the elderly and elderly people living at home with home help. The Dutch Geronte proved to be useful in the assessment and visualization of the need of care of elderly people.     

便携式运动能力检测系统的研制

目的:检测儿童的平衡能力和下肢力量,研究评估儿童运动能力的相关指标。方法:设计了一套便携式运动能力检测系统,检测儿童的平衡能力和下肢力量。本系统由运动能力检测设备和上位机数据分析存储展示部分组成。结果:研制的便携式运动能力检测系统具有可穿戴、功耗低等优点,能够准确地记录儿童的运动数据。结论:便携式运动能力检测系统能够检测使用者在运动过程中的平衡数据和下肢力量数据,及时发现运动能力的缺陷,为儿童的日常生活和锻炼提供参考。     

Multi-day Longitudinal Assessment of Physical Activity and Sleep Behavior Among Healthy Young and Older Adults Using Wearable Sensors

ObjectivesThe number of elderly people is growing rapidly and aging is found to affect activities of daily living. Older adults are found to perform less physical activity when compared to younger ones. In the perspective of movement behavior, it is not well understood how are elderly different from younger ones. It is not known whether they produce only low frequency movement accelerations or the overall number of movements produced are reduced in elderly. It is also not known how elderly and younger ones perform movement transitions throughout the duration of a day and during night-time sleep.Material and methodsIn this study, 10 healthy young and 10 healthy old participants wore inertial measurement unit at their lower back for 3-days. The 24 hours of day were divided into four 6 hour time zones and transitions made by young and elderly were investigated. All participants performed their regular daily activities unhindered and longitudinal multi-day signals for acceleration and angular velocity were analyzed. Time-frequency analysis was performed using wavelet transform and frequency content of each movement performed was computed.ResultsWe found that both young and older adults performed significantly more low amplitude movements than medium and high amplitude movements. Healthy young adults produced significantly more movements at 1.1 Hz than older adults. Healthy young adults were also found to have produced significantly smaller number of transitions in the mid-phases of sleep. They were also found to produce significantly larger accelerations during night-time sleep transitions than their older counterparts.ConclusionThe advantages of collecting longitudinal data about human movement and sleep transition data can lead us to important clinical diagnosis. The information from longitudinal assessment can help develop lifestyle interventions for disease prevention, monitoring of chronic diseases to prevent or slow disease progression among elderly people.     

Sleep disorders in elderly, the sleep apnea syndrome in particular: are they a cause of insomnia? A review of literature

In this publication a review is presented based on the findings resulting from sleep-wake investigations searching for sleep disorders associated with insomnia in relatively healthy elderly. 44 Relevant journal articles published between 1980-1998 were found. The four most important sleep disorders which can be accompanied by sleeplessness in relatively healthy elderly people are periodic leg movements disorder (PLM), restless legs syndrome (RLS), REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) and sleep apnea syndrome (SAS). Of these disorders, sleep apnea and periodic leg movements occur most frequently, in a quarter of the elderly. The latter, however, seldom complain about sleeplessness. Within the category of older people disorders characterized by movements during sleep increase significantly with age, nightly respiration disorders do not. SAS, PLM and RBD appear most frequently in men and RLS in women. The disorders characterized by movements during sleep (especially RLS and RBD) are often accompanied by sleeplessness. SAS, however, is more closely associated with day-time sleepiness than with sleeplessness. No combination of demographic variables and symptoms allows a reliable prediction of these sleep disorders. Fortunately, these disorders are not a major threat to the health of older people.     

Prevalent sleep problems in the aged

Quality of sleep influences the level of daytime functioning, including stress levels, psychosomatic complaints, general health, and overall well-being. As people age, they complain more about disturbed sleep, insomnia, increased time in bed, and sleep fragmentation. These complaints can be related to circadian rhythm desynchronization, hypnotic or other medication use, chronic bedrest, napping, dementia, or to sleep apnea, a disorder of respiratory cessation which is quite prevalent in the elderly. We review here the results of 12 years of research on sleep in the elderly. In studies of three populations of elderly, it was found that between 24% and 42% had five or more apneas per hour of sleep and 4%–14% had 20 or more apneas per hour of sleep. Since apnea is related to dementia and even to mortality, this high prevalence of apnea is of extreme importance.Supported by grants Nos. NIA 02711, NIA 08415, NBHLI 40930, RSDA NIMH 00117 (to DFK) and by the Veterans Affairs Research Administration. Special appreciation is given to Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Dr. Melville R. Klauber, Robert Fell, William Mason, Linda Parker, and Jennifer Bloomquist for help with these studies.     

The use of melatonin for the treatment of insomnia

The pineal product melatonin is involved in the regulation of the sleep/wake cycle in humans. In blind individuals and in people travelling through time zones, melatonin rhythms are sometimes unsynchronized with the diel cycle, and nocturnal sleep may be disturbed. Low or distorted melatonin rhythms have repeatedly been reported in middle aged and elderly insomniacs. Melatonin administration effectively synchronized the sleep wake cycle in blind individuals and in subjects suffering from jet lag and advanced sleep onset in subjects suffering from delayed sleep phase syndrome. In elderly insomniacs, melatonin replacement therapy significantly decreased sleep latency, and/or increased sleep efficiency and decreased wake time after sleep onset. In addition, melatonin substitution facilitated benzodiazepine discontinuation in chronic users. These data show an association between melatonin rhythm disturbances and difficulties to promote or maintain sleep at night. Specific melatonin formulations may be useful to treat circadian-rhythm-related sleep disorders and age-related insomnia.     

Data shopping in an open marketplace: Introducing the Ontogrator web application for marking up data using ontologies and browsing using facets

In the future, we hope to see an open and thriving data market in which users can find and select data from a wide range of data providers. In such an open access market, data are products that must be packaged accordingly. Increasingly, eCommerce sellers present heterogeneous product lines to buyers using faceted browsing. Using this approach we have developed the Ontogrator platform, which allows for rapid retrieval of data in a way that would be familiar to any online shopper. Using Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), especially ontologies, Ontogrator uses text mining to mark up data and faceted browsing to help users navigate, query and retrieve data. Ontogrator offers the potential to impact scientific research in two major ways: 1) by significantly improving the retrieval of relevant information; and 2) by significantly reducing the time required to compose standard database queries and assemble information for further research. Here we present a pilot implementation developed in collaboration with the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) that includes content from the StrainInfo, GOLD, CAMERA, Silva and Pubmed databases. This implementation demonstrates the power of ontogration and highlights that the usefulness of this approach is fully dependent on both the quality of data and the KOS (ontologies) used. Ideally, the use and further expansion of this collaborative system will help to surface issues associated with the underlying quality of annotation and could lead to a systematic means for accessing integrated data resources.     

Prevalent sleep problems in the aged.

Quality of sleep influences the level of daytime functioning, including stress levels, psychosomatic complaints, general health, and overall well-being. As people age, they complain more about disturbed sleep, insomnia, increased time in bed, and sleep fragmentation. These complaints can be related to circadian rhythm desynchronization, hypnotic or other medication use, chronic bedrest, napping, dementia, or to sleep apnea, a disorder of respiratory cessation which is quite prevalent in the elderly. We review here the results of 12 years of research on sleep in the elderly. In studies of three populations of elderly, it was found that between 24% and 42% had five or more apneas per hour of sleep and 4%-14% had 20 or more apneas per hour of sleep. Since apnea is related to dementia and even to mortality, this high prevalence of apnea is of extreme importance.     

Oral hygiene and the need for treatment of the dependent institutionalised elderly

Objective: To assessing the oral hygiene and treatment needs of a geriatric institution in southern France. Background: For various reasons, the care demand from elderly people is low and difficult to determine, whereas their oral status would need long and complicated treatments. Materials and methods: From 2003 to 2004, a cross‐sectional study of 321 elderly patients was conducted at several geriatric services of Montpellier, France. The clinical evaluation of dental status was recorded together with medical information. Dental and prosthetic hygiene, status of dentures, caries experience, dependence conditions and treatment needs were evaluated. Results: The prevalence of edentulism was 27%, with no gender difference (23% of the men and 29% of the women). Among them, 16.7% (upper jaw) and 18.1% (lower jaw) were totally edentulous with no denture. The mean number of decayed and missing teeth was 3.7 for men and 2.8 for women and 21.5 for men and 21.0 for women, respectively. The mean number of filled teeth was 0.8 for men and 1.3 for women, with no statistical difference according to gender for the three indexes. Most of the subjects needed prostheses (53%), 45.1% extractions and 30.6% conservative treatments. Only 2.4% did not need any treatment. Conclusion: The prevalence of edentulism was relatively low, while the need for prosthodontic rehabilitation, especially for men, was still very high. The dental hygiene was globally inadequate. This evaluation emphasises the care demand and the need for help in oral hygiene procedures for the dependent institutionalised elderly.     

心内科住院患者睡眠质量分析与护理干预

目的:了解心内科住院患者睡眠质量,分析睡眠障碍的原因,探讨改善患者睡眠障碍的有效护理对策。方法:对我院2010年5月-2010年12月心内科109例住院睡眠障碍患者采取问卷调查及深入访谈相结合的方法进行调查,找出心内科患者睡眠障碍的原因;随后,将109例患者随机分为两组,对照组实行组常规护理,干预组实行有针对性的护理,7d后对对两组患者睡眠障碍进行测评。结果:心内科患者睡眠障碍症状为:入眠时间长,早醒,觉醒次数多,醒后再入眠难;睡眠障碍原因为:患者自身疾病、心理、环境、其他及综合因素所致。通过有针对性的护理干预后,两组有较大差距(P<0.05),干预组患者睡眠障碍改善明显,干预组好于对照组,表明护理干预可有效改善患者的睡眠质量。结论:疾病因素、心理因素以及生活习惯是影响心内科住院患者睡眠质量的主要因素,通过科学有效的护理干预措施,可以改善心内科患者的睡眠质量,提高患者的身心健康。